Animated Landscapes History, Form and Function

• Other Authors: Pallant, Chris (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc 2015
• Subjects: Animated films > History and criticism; Landscapes in art; Landscapes in motion pictures; Animation (Cinematography)
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 Studying landscape in cinema isn't quite new; it'd be hard to imagine Woody Allen without New York, or the French New Wave without Paris. But the focus on live-action cinema leaves a significant gap in studying animated films. With the almost total pervasiveness of animation today, this collection provides the reader with a greater sense of how the animated landscapes of the present relate to those of the past. Including essays from international perspectives, 'Animated Landscapes' introduces an idea that has seemed, literally, to be in the background of animation studies. The collection provides a timely counterpoint to the dominance of character (be that either animated characters such as Mickey Mouse or real world personalities such as Walt Disney) that exists within animation scholarship (and film studies more generally).